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Election 2023

It’s Business as Usual

It’s Business as Usual

bobmccoskrie.com With special votes yet to be counted, we can confidently say that we have a new Government. As we await the final count and watch the make-up of the National-led Government under Christopher Luxon’s leadership and the new ministerial portfolios, not a lot will change for us.

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Winston Is Back From the Dead…Again

Winston Is Back From the Dead…Again

John Denton Oh, the irony. Post-election, Winston Peters, in his usual “I’ll do the talking sunshine” mode, railed against being “marginalised and shut out” by the “corrupt media”, despite it being they who were totally responsible for his comeback this time around. We know our mainstream media are heavily

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Satirical Image of the Day

Satirical Image of the Day

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A Fantastic Feeling

One of the curious things about the last couple of days is the high I am on. Unlike previous elections, this is the first New Zealand one (I also felt the same after voting for Donald Trump in 2016) I am ‘feeling’. It is the first one where I am

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The Left Look at What Went Wrong

The Left Look at What Went Wrong

Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Labour Party has crashed from 50 per cent of the vote in 2020 to around 27 per cent in 2023. The election loss has been

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A Game of Two Halves

A Game of Two Halves

It is traditionally thought that New Zealand has a three-year term for governments. While strictly true, in reality, it isn’t. Matt McCarten was the guy who explained to me that our real term of parliament is actually six years, split into two three-year halves. If your government is good

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A Man Writing a Letter

A Message for the New Parliamentarians

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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All Black Win Cures Mike Hosking’s Ferocious Post-election Hangover

All Black Win Cures Mike Hosking’s Ferocious Post-election Hangover

Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED Multi-award-winning Newstalk ZB host Mike Hosking woke up with an absolute bone-chilling hangover, as his 7.55 alarm went off Sunday morning. After a dominant National Party performance last night, Hosking pushed the boat out even further than most would have

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NZ Election 2023: Polls Understated the Right

Adrian Beaumont The University of Melbourne theconversation.com While the tide well and truly went out on Labour on election night, there are still several factors complicating the formation of a National and ACT coalition government. Special votes are yet to be counted, with the official final result still three

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From a Red Tide in 2020 to Blood on the Floor in 2023

Richard Shaw Massey University Close, but so far no “baubles of office” for Winston Peters and NZ First. “We have done the impossible,” he told supporters on election night. But as the old saying goes, politics is the art of the possible. For the past two weeks, as the polls

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Hallelujah: First Steps of Progress at Last

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Some kind of deliverance is at hand. The worst government of my long life is off to the knackers’

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The Case for National to Find Common Ground with NZ First

The Case for National to Find Common Ground with NZ First

In New Zealand politics, some alliances may seem unlikely at first glance. A case in point is the dilemma National faces right now. There has been plenty of animus between National and Winston Peters, with thirty years of sabotage, ankle-tapping and skullduggery to try to ensure Winston is dead and

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BFD Caption Competition

BFD Caption Competition

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What Is the Probem with Labour?

What Is the Probem with Labour?

As Chris Hipkins sits in the rubble of a Labour Government ejected in the biggest swing in our history, I wonder what he is thinking. Presumably he is desperately trying to think of something or someone to blame (it’s not like HE could be in any way responsible); no

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New Zealand Turns Right

New Zealand Turns Right

Debrin Foxcroft Finlay Macdonald Matt Garrow Veronika Meduna The Conversation theconversation.com From winning a single-party majority in 2020, Labour’s vote has virtually halved in 2023. Pre-election polls appear to have under-estimated support for National, which on the provisional results can form a government with ACT and won’t

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